Ulcombe
Ulcombe is a village and civil parish near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England.

Ulcombe is a village and civil parish near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The name is recorded in the Domesday Book and is thought to derive from 'Owl-coomb': 'coomb' meaning 'a deep little wooded valley; a hollow in a hill side' in Old English. The original deserted Medieval village site lies to the east of the parish church in a valley. There is also a water-mill below this site, probably of early origins. It stands below the Greensand Way.
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Worth seeing in and around Ulcombe
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Leeds Castle
Leeds Castle is a castle in Kent, England, 7 miles southeast of Maidstone. It is built on islands in a lake formed by the River Len to the east of the village of Leeds and is a historic Grade I listed estate.
3.6 km · castle in Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Sutton Valence Castle
Sutton Valence Castle is a ruined medieval fortification in the village of Sutton Valence in Kent, England. Overlooking a strategic route to the coast, the original castle probably comprised an inner and an outer bailey and a protective barbican, with a three-storey high keep on its southern side.
3.2 km · castle in Sutton Valence, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03All Saints Church, Ulcombe
All Saints is a parish church in Ulcombe, Kent. It was begun in the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building.
0 m · church in Ulcombe · Wikipedia - 04Boughton Place
Boughton Place, formerly Bocton Place or Bocton Hall, is a country house in Boughton Malherbe, Kent, England.
3.5 km · country house in Boughton Malherbe, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Peter's and St Paul's Church, East Sutton
St Peter's and St Paul's Church is a parish church in Church Lane, East Sutton, Kent dedicated to saints Peter and Paul. It was begun in the mid-13th century or earlier and additions were made in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.
1.9 km · Grade I listed church in East Sutton, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ulcombe
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 58 km · London Stansted (STN), 79 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 82 km
- Stations
- Harrietsham railway station, 3.7 km
- London → Ulcombe63 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £7–9
- London, Essex → Ulcombe63 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £7–9
- Luton, Luton → Ulcombe105 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–16
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ulcombe
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ulcombe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundIt is signed throughout although its quality is variable, with a mix of cycle tracks, quiet roads and a few off-road sections.
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Next door to Ulcombe
- Boughton Malherbevillage and civil parish in the Maidstone district of Kent, England, UK3.5 km
- Harrietshamvillage in Kent, England, UK3.6 km
- East Suttonvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK1.9 km
- Kingswoodvillage in Kent, United Kingdom1 km
- Broomfield and Kingswoodcivil parish in Kent, UK2.3 km
- Broomfieldvillage in Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom3 km